Is there a bug with Class Validation ?

[eluser]cPage[/eluser]
This is not working when i put some white space into client field ?

ABC inc not valid
ABCinc is valid

Code:

$this->form_validation->set_rules('client', ucfirst($this->lang->line('client')), 'required|alpha');

[eluser]bigbusty[/eluser]
I'm not sure if thats the right answer but i think that whitespace is not considered alpha.

I've looked into the alpha function

Code:

return ( ! preg_match("/^([a-z])+$/i", $str)) ? FALSE : TRUE;

This method returns false, if there's whitespace in your string.

[eluser]PhilTem[/eluser]
If you look at the user's guide and the description of option alpha you will see the following

Returns FALSE if the form element contains anything other than alphabetical characters.

which means, that any whitespace character is considered invalid. So there's no bug.

[eluser]cPage[/eluser]
So, alpha it is good for string that required no space, like username.

That's what i thought thanks for the reply.